Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Cladus: Cynodontia
Cladus: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Cladus: Scrotifera
Cladus: Ferungulata
Cladus: Euungulata
Ordo: Artiodactyla
Cladus: Artiofabula
Subordo: Suina
Familia: Suidae
Genus: Potamochoerus
Synonyms (1): Choiropotamus
Species (7): P. larvatus - P. porcus – †P. afarensis – †P. magnus – †P. nodosarius – †P. palaeindicus – †P. theobaldi
Name
Potamochoerus Gray, 1854
References
Primary references
Gray [1854]: Proc. zool. Soc. London, 20, 1852, 131.
Links
Potamochoerus in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Vernacular names
Ελληνικά: Ποταμόχοιρος
Potamochoerus (meaning "river pig") is a genus in the pig family (Suidae). The two species are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, although the bushpig, possibly due to introduction by humans, also occurs in Madagascar and nearby islands. Early in the 20th century, there were considered to be as many as five different species within the genus. These were gradually consolidated, until, in the 1970s, it was generally agreed that all were representatives of just a single species (P. porcus). The bushpig was again recognised as a separate species from about 1993.[1]
The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid Pliocene in Europe, and are first seen in Africa from least the mid Pleistocene, suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia.[1] However, molecular phylogenetic evidence suggests that the genus first diverged from the line leading to the giant forest hog and the warthogs much earlier, in the late Miocene, between 11.9 and 5.6 million years ago. The same studies suggest that the two living species diverged from one another between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago.[2]
Species
Extant species
Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822) Bushpig East and Southern Africa.
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) Red river hog Guinean and Congolian forests
Fossils
†Potamochoerus magnus
References
Leslie, D.M.; Huffman, B.A. (July 2015). "Potamochoerus porcus (Artiodactyla: Suidae)". Mammalian Species. 47 (919): 15–31. doi:10.1093/mspecies/sev002.
Gongora, J.; et al. (June 2011). "Rethinking the evolution of extant sub-Saharan African suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla)". Zoologica Scripta. 40 (4): 327–335. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00480.x. S2CID 82372059.
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